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Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.[3][4][5][1][6]
Ludmil Alexandrov | |
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| Born | Ludmil B. Alexandrov |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Mutational signatures |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Biology Cancer Genomics Mutagenesis Ageing Bioinformatics[1] |
| Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory Wellcome Sanger Institute UC San Diego |
| Thesis | Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer (2014) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Stratton[2] |
| Website | profiles |
Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.[2]
Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.[7]
Alexandrov's research interests are in computational biology, cancer genomics, mutagenesis, ageing and bioinformatics.[1] Alexandrov is one of the co-leaders of the Mutographs of Cancer project, a £20 million Grand Challenge Project funded by Cancer Research UK "to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer-causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer."[8][9]
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